10/19 Freepers pile on Dubya
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1505696/posts
\_ Naahhh, looks like the usual ass-licking of the GOP power brokers
to me. Sometimes this stuff is so over the top it almost reads
like parody, or even Bush slashfic:
"Whether it's the mass media or the obstructionist Democrat
Senators, the Islamic terrorists or natural disasters, the leaders
of the various 'minority' groups or the homosexual lobby, the
abortionist fanatics or the RINOs, even leftover Clintonites in the
Pentagon, FBI and CIA, there is always something standing there,
furiously attacking or opposing the President at every turn. Yet he
stands up and faces it all with courage and tenacity. Where will
anyone find a better man out there?"
\_ I hate the freeper whining so much. "We only control TWO branches
of the government. Daddy promised us THREEEEE." Internally I
translate everything that "stands in their way" (liberals,
democrats, Clinton, etc.) to variations of "the Man" just so I
can listen to it without slapping them upside the head. The
above quote slightly translated for my sanity: "Whether it's the
corporate Man or the obstructionist Man, the Bible thumping Man,
or natural disasters, the leaders of the various 'majority'
groups or the Missionary Position Only lobby, the anti-abortion-
ist or the Oreos, even the leftover Man in the Pentagon, FBI and
CIA, there is always something standing there, furiously attack-
ing or opposing the President at every turn. Yet he stands up
and faces it all with courage and tenacity. Where will anyone
find a better brother out there? Slap mah fro!" Yeah it doesn't
work. I still wanna slap a freeper around.
groups or the Missionary Position Only lobby, the anti-abortionist
or the Oreos, even the leftover Man in the Pentagon, FBI and CIA,
there is always something standing there, furiously attacking or
opposing the President at every turn. Yet he stands up and faces
it all with courage and tenacity. Where will anyone find a better
brother out there? Slap mah fro!" Yeah it doesn't work. I still
wanna slap a freeper around.
\_ They will only be happy once we live in the Christian
feudal corporate state, with 90% of the population slaving
away in vast polluting factories or off fighting in endless
wars, while they enjoy the most sinful pleasures on top.
We're not there yet, so they whine.
\_ Not slaving away in factories. Serving the upperclass
on their enormous estates/ranches, and in their shopping
centers. And those that serve the rich will be the
lucky ones. The rest will live in 3rd world conditions
without health care, public services, police protection,
public education, or hope, in places where the
upperclass never has to see or deal with them. And the
upperclass will say: "They deserve that, because they
don't work hard enough. They're stupid and lazy. In
this country, Under God, you get what you deserve!"
That is when the freepers will be happy.
\_ I don't know why you put no healthcare in the future
tense. Most of the people I know from highschool have
no health insurance now, and I went to an upper middle
no healthe insurance now, and I went to an upper middle
class highschool.

10/20 Powell fucks Dick
http://onegoodmove.org/1gm/1gmarchive/002492.html#002492
"a plea bargain process has evidently been opened with Vice President
Cheney's lawyer ... Powell ... showed that memo only to two people--
president and vice president. ... Powell testified about this exchange
in great length to the grand jury ... Powell appeared convinced that
the vice president played a focal role in disclosing plame's undercover
status."
\_ Is it possible to overdose on schadenfreude?
\_ On the contrary, my mom is convinced that when my grandmother
was dying of a degenerative brain disease back in the 70's,
that Watergate-related shadenfreude added months to her life.
She was a Trotskyist, and of course loathed Nixon.
\_ Could the "schadenfreude" guy please give it a rest? The only
reason any of us gain any bit of enjoyment in what's happening
is in the possibly naive hope that America will wake up and
vote these corrupt, incompetent and treasonous clowns out of
power.

10/20 Italian men become fathers at a later age than any other
nationality, and do little or nothing to help their wives once
their babies are born.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051020/od_nm/italy_fathers_dc
\_ The "late fathers" part is because they all live with the 'rents
until they're something like 33 on average. -John
\_ The "late fathers" part is because they all live with the 'rents
until they're something like 33 on average. -John
\_ What is this, a doublemint commercial? You feeling okay over
there, John? -mice
\_ What is this, a doublemint commercial? You feeling okay over
there, John? -mice
\_ It's some moron's broken motd restore script. I've posted
about it before. -John
\_ private scripts are bad :(
\_ bad scripts make Jesus cry

10/20 Sendmail question: When I send mail while logged into my mail server
to an address on the same server, the From address appears
as "username" rather than "username@mailserver". Can somebody
give me a hint what I need to change to have the full address appear?
\_ In both Emacs sendmail and MS Outlook, you can specify an address in
the "From:" field.
\_ This is a sendmail.cf question, not about the mail client.
\_ FEATURE(always_add_domain)dnl in sendmail.mc. -tom

10/20 There's an SMC 54Mbps Wireless Cable/DSL Broadband Router on sale at
MicroCenter for $7.99. Does anyone have and bad experience with this
router? I'm looking for a wired router for my two desktops at home,
but this one is even cheaper than the wired routers. TIA.
\_ Dude, it's eight bucks. -John
\_ Yeah, I can dump it if it's bad. But I'm new to networking, so
if it causes incompatibility or other problems, I would't be able
to tell whether it's the router or it's something else.
\_ Look to http://newegg.com, Amazon, and http://cnet.com user reviews.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16833129017
\_ I bought one for my parents. Range seems fine, doesn't seem to
crash or hang. My parents are not very demanding users, and
their needs are modest (no vpn, games, don't need ports open,
no particular filtering, etc.).
\_ On a related question, I have the netgear WG614 and it's a
piece of junk. Netgear use to make good stuff, but the
WG614 has so many problems. Anyone care to recommend a good
router? My experience with Linksys was from the pre-cisco
era, and back then netgear's stuff is way more stable than
linksys. Has their stuff improved after being part of
cisco? What about d-link?
\_ I bought Linksys WRT54G recently and I am extremely pleased
with it even though I didn't bother with installing customized
Linux-based firmware on it. It is very stable, has all the
features that I need and "just works" (tm). I was specially
pleased that it keeps the NAT state properly for ssh sessions
and doesn't kill them after a period of inactivity (lots of
routers seem to do that, at very least with their earlier
firmware versions)
\_ You mean it runs for weeks/month without the need to
reset? If so I will seriously consider it...
\_ Yes. It has been working fine for six weeks so far but YMMV
specially since many such gadgets can have several
hardware revisions while keeping the same model name.
I am connecting with cat5 cable but my roommate are using
wireless (with WPA/shared key).
\_ Six weeks of uptime is not that long. I have a d-link di-624
that's been running for several months.

10/20 Corruption in Iraq
http://amconmag.com/2005/2005_10_24/cover.html
\_ feel the schadenfreude!
\_ Erm, you've got a substantial part of the population who's been
watching in horror as a more substantial part of the population
condones crooks and morons ruining the country, lying cheating
and stealing and getting away with it, and fucking up things
so badly it's hard to believe it's not being done on purpose,
all the while being ignored by said more substantial part when
yelling at them to engage their fucking brains. Now the barrel
of shit created by aforementioned crooks and morons starts to
run over, spattering aforementioned shit all over everyone, and
you are surprised about "schadenfreude"? -John
\_ bad word choice on my part. I should have said, "sucks
to be an American in the private sector" -op
\_ If even half of what was said in that article was true we should
ignite Chaney today. -mrauser
indite Chaney today. -mrauser
\_ I wish we could indict him for fleecing America
\_ Is that even illegal when 1 party controls 2 branches of
government?
\_ MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!

10/20 Canada among the 'worst polluters':
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/americas/10/18/canada.pollution.ap/index.html
\_ Just the tarsands alone produces as much greenhouse gas as 1/3 the
entire California passenger car fleet. It's kind of ironic that
\_ Just the tarsands alone produces as much greenhouse gas as 1/3 of
the entire California passenger car fleet. It's kind of ironic that
they are using one of the cleanest fuels (natural gas) to produce
much more environmentally dirty petroleum and producing tons of
emissions in the process.
much more environmentally dirty petroleum and lots of emissions
more environmentally dirty petroleum and lots of emissions
in the process.

10/20 http://RaptureReady.com, its "Rapture Index" has been hovering around 160
the highest levels since just after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9731623
\_ Does having the anti-Christ as a VP make the index go up or down?
\_ He is merely "in league" with the Lightbringer (i.e. not related)
\_ He is merely "in league" with the Lightbearer (i.e. not related)

10/20 Oh munificent psb, I need high fallutin' friends I can bitch about
opera with....Do you know any? Also, whadya think of Dr. Atomic?
\- The bomb was "the bomb". I didnt like the women parts.
I didnt really expect to like it but went to see it anyway.
\_ I left after act2, scene1. What a disappointment.
Even more so than the Harriet Miers nomination. -op
\_ I rarely even meet people like you, so let me take this
opportunity to tell you to go fuck yourself.
\_ Hey don't go all Cheney on us.
\_ One more from the man who brought us _Nixon in China_ and
_I Was Looking at the Ceiling and then I Saw the Sky_? Adams
is probably most consistently the least interesting of the
minimalists. Though I did see him conduct the Ensemble Modern
playing Rihm, Nancarrow, Zappa, etc. and that kicked some
serious ass.